Folded bottle collar



July 29, 1941. L. P. NEHER 2,251,022

FOLDED BOTTLE COLLAR Filed April 29, 1959 2 ShetS-Sheet 1 July 29, 194i..

L. P. NEHER.

FOLDED BOTTLE COLLAR Filed April 29, 1939 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 /N/f/vrae EEQY R Nif/ER, .EYAMIW #frein/En l Patented July 29, 1941 FoLDlED BOTTLE COLLAR Leroy P. Neher, St. Louis,.Mo., assignor to Neher- Whitehead & Company, St. Louis, Mo., a corporation of Missouri Application April 29, 1939, serial No. 270,737

a claims. ,(ol. Aci- 4) The present invention relates to a display device, `the particular use of which is on a bottle, such as a milk bottle, wherein it may be brought down over the ange of the bottle and rest on the neck thereof, its bottom adjacent the bottle shoulder.

The problem confronting the design of these bottle collars derives from the shape of the bottle, since the ange is larger than the neck of the bottle below it. For convenient application of the bottle collars to the bottle, they must fall relatively freely over the ange. Yet, they must also nest snugly on the neck of the bottle because otherwise, with a loose t, they would be subject to being torn by the packing of the bottles in the crates, or by the placing of ice around the bottles.

Heretofore these collars have been made from a more or less arcuate piece of material that had an irregular upper edge providing an outer peripheral length greater than the periphery of the bottle ilange, such as is shown in the Wasser Patent 1,999,011. Others have been provided with a pivotal connection between the ends of the arcuate piece as in Wasser Patent 1,829,915.

Also there is the objective of obtaining a maximum of advertising area. This problem has seemed to work in opposition to the above problems of passing over the bottle ilange.

The present display device is made from a single sheet of material and requires no joining of ends to be maintained in the shape of a part of a cone. It, nevertheless, obtains a greater advertising area than has been available heretofore.

Objects of the invention include the provision of a bottle collar made from a i'lat piece of material, -cut and folded to be formed into the portion of a cone.

A further object of this invention is to provide such a device having a larger advertising area, but, nevertheless, readily able to pass over the :ange of a bottle. Y

A further object is to provide a bottle collar of this type having a main front section and a relatively smaller back section, the front section extending a substantial distance up on the bottle and co-acting With the back section to tend to keep the collar in conical shape.

In the drawings:

Fig, 1 is a view of a bottle collar in the blank showing the lines upon which it is to be folded and cut;

Fig. 2 is a view of the collar during the process of folding;

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the collar in arcuate form;

Fig. 4 is a side elevation;

Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the device on a bottle;

Fig. 7 is a View of a rst modication in blank;

Fig. 8 is a side elevation;

Fig. 9 is a rear elevation ofthe rlrst modification in conical form;

Fig. 10 is a View of a second modification in blank; and,

Fig. 11 is a side elevation of the second modification in conical form.

In the description of this invention, reference is made to a milk bottle to clarify the explanation. The device is obviously adaptable to any similar use. VReferring toFigs. 1-6, there is a blank shown generally atv I5, this blank being a flat piece of pliable material, such as paper, cardboard, or the like. Two opposite edges I 6 and I1 are arcuate and are connected by lateral edges I8 and I9. Across the middle of the blank, there is a slot 20, beyond the ends of which are fold lines 2| land 22. From the extremes of the slot 2U toward one or the other of the arcuate edges extend diagonal fold lines 23 and 24. If desired, similar opposite fold lines 25 and 26 may be provided to enable the device to be folded in either direction, The several fold lines are preferably indented into the material to facilitate starting the folding.

I The radius for the arcuate edges IB and I1 is approximately equal to the length of a complete generatrix of the effective taper of the neck of the bottle 'upon which the device is to be used, or V'any other analogous dimension if the object is not to be used on a bottle. The combined effective lengths of the arcuate edges I 6 and I'I should approximately equal the periphery of the bottle at the place upon which the lower end of the collaris to rest, preferably the shoulder. For the average milk bottle the radius of the arcuate edges about ve and three-eighths inches. The width of the collar between laterall edges is ve and seven-eighths inches which allows an amount to be mentioned later as overlap. The slot 20 is about three and three-quarter inches long which provides clearance for any ordinary milk bottle iiange.

The length of the slot 20 and of the Aarcs I6 and I'I controls the height of the collar, which may be represented at one point by the length of the score lines 23, 24, etc. This is approximately two and one-sixteenths inches in this first type.

It will be observed that the score lines 23, etc. do not extend exactly to the corners of the blank. A slight surplusage is allowed since this forms an overlap when the device is folded and ensures that there are no notches at the junction.

The above delineations divide the blank into main or face sections 28 and 29, the main section 28 having end sections 33 and 3|, and the main section 29 having end sections 32 and 33.

Stated differently, the end sections 30 and 32V form a side portion and opposite end sections 3| and 33 form another side portion.

In folding the device, the sections 32 and 33 are folded over toward the main section 29 about the fold lines 23 and 24, respectively. In so doing the other section 28 folds down toward the section 29 about the lines 2| and 22. is continued until the two sections 32 and 33 overlap and lie against the main section 29. The main section then assumes an arcuate shape with the edges |6 and complementary and lying substantially in a plane.

It may be desirable to put glue between the overlapping flaps 3|] and 32 as shown at 35, and similar glue between overlapping flaps 3| and 33 as shown at 39. This will ensure that the collar will not spring outwardly at this overlap.

In the folding of the collar it, obviously, is not folded about both sets of angular fold lines, although either may be used. In the present description the two lines 23 and 24 have .been used.

As seen in Fig. 6, the bottom edge lies substantially in a plane approximately equal to the diameter of the shoulder of the bottle. Both the sections 28.. and 29 project well up on to the shoulder and yet the collar may be easily passed over the flange F of the bottle, because the linear dimension of the upper edge of the collar is greater than .that of the flange. However, to take advantage of the maximum advertisingrarea possible, the peaks of the front and back sec-- tions 28 and 29 extend to a point on the bottle the diameter of which is less than the diameter of the flange F. l Y I A modification of the collar is shown in Fig. 7. In thisl collar, similar Vparts are designated by similar numbers, but with the additionl of 100 thereto. be the same as those of the previous type,and there are two sections |28 and |29. In this collar, the slot |29 is also made arcuate and it is described about the same center preferably as is the arcuate edge ||6. The collar is folded in the same way as is the previous type. It may be glued in the sam-e way, if desired. However, in this case the section |28 in the conical shape takes the shape of a frustum of the cone withv parellel upper and lower edges, both perpendicular to the axis of the bottle. The section |29 has an extended upper edge which has two functions. It provides a major section that focusses attention from an advertising standpoint, and extends to such an Vextent up into the neck of the bottle that its peak has considerable leverage.V When viewing it in Fig. 8, it is pushed outwardly` or to the right by engagement with the neck of the bottle. This effect causes the two sections |28 and |29 to come together at their bottom edges so that there is a minimum flaring apart of the.

two sections in the event they. are not glued together.

In. this type of collar it is not essential-that the slot 4|20V be concentric with the .edge H6.

The folding l The outer dimensions of the collar mayY it more effective length, so that actually the collar may project further up on the bottle neck than does the first type. The irregular slot provides the possibility of having the maximum ratio of advertising area of the collar to the area of the neck of the bottle, in a one piece bottle co1- lar. A freer t may be obtained by making the slot wider, and less slit-like, and in so doing it is usually desirable to widen it at the expense of the back section.

Figs. 10 and 11 show a second modification, the

` numbers of which are designated by correspond- The making of the slotirregular in shape gives ing reference numerals to those of the original typebut with 200 added thereto. In this second modication; the outer proportions are the same as the previous ones, dividing the blank into two sectionsl The slot 229, however, has been cut out from both collar sections as at 22M and 22012. Preferably the two edges 22Go and 229D are described about the same centers as the corresponding'edges 2|6 and 2|'|. By this means, when the collar is disposed on the bottle, not only do the arcuate edges 2| E and 2|`| occupy substantially a plane, but also the upper edges 22ila and 2292) occupy substantially a plane, both planes being perpendicular to the axis of the cone.

It maybe seen from the foregoing that the present bottle collar has all of the advantages of the former arcuate type with overlapping ends together with .the additional advantages of more readily assemblage and greater advertising space. The amount of paper consumed relative to the amount of availableand effective advertising space'issubstantially greater in the present collars than in the previous ones.

The formation of the opposed edges of the blank in arcuate shape, so as to occupy a plane substantially at the shoulder of the bottle has the advantage that there are n o edges that can engage the cratesI when the bottles are packed and unpacked or that can be snagged in use.

Inthe above examples, the dimensions in inches are merely to give a clear understanding of the invention, and are not limitations unless by expression or necessary implication.

What is claimed is:

1. A display device adapted to. assume the shape of a portion of a` cone with open top and bottom, said device being formed from a blank of pliable material, said blank having opposite edges arcuately shaped about radii substantially equal in length to that of a generatrix of the cone, lateral edges joining said arcuate edges at their ends, an arcuate slot in the blank between the lateral edges and concentric with one of said arcuate edges, fold lines extending laterally from the ends of the slot to the lateral edges of the blank, said slot and fold lines dividing the blank into front and back main portions, the front portion being on the concave side of the slot, diagonal fold lines from the ends of the slot radially to at least one arcuate edge, said device being adapted to be formed into a conical shape by lapping the areas between the outwardly extending fold lines and the radial onesto underlie one of the main sections, the arcuate edges lying substantially in a plane and the back upper edge lying substantially in a parallel plane, and with the front. portion extending upwardly above said 'rear portion.

2. A display device adapted to assume the shape of a cone with open top and bottom, said device being formed from a blank of pliable material, said blank having opposite bottom edges curved on radii the length of which is substantially equal to a generatrix of the cone, lateral edges joining ends of Said arcuate edges, the arcuate edges being each at least equal to about one-half the periphery of the cone at the base, a slot in the middle of the blank and having opposed arcuate edges concentric with the bottom edges, fold lines extendingr outwardly from the ends of the slot to the midpoints of the lateral edges, said slot and fold lines dividing the blank into front and back main sections, diagonal fold lines extending from the junctions of the outwardly extending fold lines and the slot in directions radially to the edges of the slot, the device being adapted to be formed into a frustum of a cone by lapping the areas between the outwardly extending and diagonal fold' lines to underlie the adjacent main section, the device when so formed having upper and lower edges in parallel planes perpendicular to the axis of the cone.

3. A display device adapted to assume the shape of a cone having open top and bottom, said device being formed from a blank of pliable material, said blank having opposite bottom edges curved on radii the length of which is substantially equal to a generatrix of the cone, lateral edges joining the ends of said arcuate edges, each of the arcuate edges being slightly longer than onenhalf the periphery of the cone at the base thereof, a slot across the blank between the lateral edges, fold lines extending from the ends of the slot to the lateral edges, and with the slot dividing the blank into front and back main sections, diagonal fold lines from the ends of the slot extending radially to the arcuate edges on at least one section and at both ends of the slot, said diagonal lines joining said arcuate edges at points spaced inwardly from the corners formed by junctions of lateral and arcuate edges, the device being adapted to be formed into a portion of a cone by lapping the areas between the outwardly extending 'and the radially extending fold lines to underlie the adjacent main section, the portions provided by inward spacing of the diagonal fold lines from the corners acting to avoid gaps in the folded display device.

LEROY P. NEHER. 

